I love my Kenmore Model# 16231. It came with a walking foot and 1/4" foot when I bought it as a quilter's package several years ago. They still sell it online for $199. This thing is a workhorse-even sewed through a corduroy and flannel rag quilt. It has a lot of features that the higher end machines have like, needle up down, will sew using a start/stop button if you don't want to use the foot pedal. It has a bunch of decorative stitches and I have yet to find a thread it doesn't like. The only thing I don't like is the self threader-on the other hand it could be user error.